I'm getting the impression that for this generation of consoles, Nintendo's decided to sit out of the marketing hype war that Sony and Microsoft are enaged in. Then, whenever either of those two companies admits to overhyping their product, Nintendo swoops in and shows them up by announcing a previously-unknown feature (such as this).
Actually, Missouri is not a red republican state (though they did vote for Bush in this past election). I quote from this Slate article:
Missouri was born in compromise in 1820, and it's still that way today. It has the same percentage of African-Americans as the nation as a whole, the same percentage of union workers, the same rural/urban mix, and on down the line. And invariably, the one fact that every Missourian knows surfaced: With the exception of the time it foolishly cast its lot with Adlai Stevenson in 1956, in every presidential election since 1900 Missouri has proudly voted for the winner. The implication is that you might as well call off the balloting in the other 49 states as a cost-saving measure.
Even though most people immediately think of farms when they hear "Missouri," and therefore assume that it's a red state, they forget about the "coasts" that are St. Louis and Kansas City. Both cities are highly Democratic, and tend to balance out the rural areas of the state. By the way, Adlai Stevenson was the Democratic nominee in 1956, meaning that the one time in the past 100 years that Missourians voted "wrongly," they voted Democratic.
How many hundreds of thousands of murders do you have to commit before people think you're a bad guy these days?
Exactly. He was a bad guy and a dictator, but that's it. He was no threat to anyone beyond the borders of Iraq, and you know that. He had no ties to Al-Qaeda. He had no weapons of mass destruction. There's a reason that he just rolled over when we invaded: he was weak, and did not need to be invaded. There are worse dictators out there, some who were installed by the CIA.
As for Bush protecting us from terrorists for 4 years, that reminds me of a certain episode of the Simpsons. A bear goes on a rampage in Springfield, and after it is captured, Homer convinces the town to waste its money on a "Bear Patrol." He tells Lisa that because there have been no bears since it began, it must be working. An event such as 9/11 took years to plan, so even if there was another one in the works, we would have no way of knowing.
Oh yeah, and if you still believe that the administration truly believed that there were WMDs, you might want to read the contents of the Downing Street Memo, which was recently confirmed to be authentic by Blair. Don't be misled by the designation of "memo:" it's actually the official minutes of a meeting between senior British officials.
I don't know about anyone else, but I can't stand AdBlock. Removing elements (such as ads) tends to mess up the flow of many web pages, and makes those pages look terrible. If I really don't want to look at an image, I'll block the images normally.
Trust me, you won't be held liable for any slander that a Chinese blogger might say against a local official. Most countries aren't too keen on extraditing their citizens to China in order to face libel charges.
IMO, a huge part of the problem is literally the value of a dollar. While a programmer in the U.S. is making $65 per hour and his Indian counterpart is making $20 per hour, the Indian is much better off in comparison. From what I hear, that amount of money is enough to hire servants in India. Even though the amount of money is less, it goes much further there than it does here.
Actually, it didn't go "just fine" for the first 100-130 years. The country would experience cycles of prosperity interlaced with terrible panics, where the bottom of many markets would completely fall out. (They were magnitudes worse than our modern recessions.) The period of these boom and bust cycles was about 20 years, and they finally culminated in the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression. The New Deal played a large part in smoothing them out.
You might have a point, except that the Bush administration has repeatedly conspired to keep the truth from the American public, and to circumvent the Constitution when it suits them. Saddam Hussein doesn't have WMDs? Fine, we'll pick and choose intelligence to make it look like he does. While we're at it, we'll meet with Blair to discuss strategy for the war that Congress hasn't authorized. What, you tell me that Saddam Hussein hasn't done anything aggressive? Then we'll increase bombings to try and goad him into war.
I'm wondering what kind of effect a large scale version of this could have on crime rates. Since it would be easier to check them, less people would move to crime-ridden areas, and the ones who do would be on their guard much more, especially those who notice spikes in crime at certain times. At the same time, the more intelligent criminals would try to do their business in areas where people are less on-guard (i.e., low crime areas). Presumably, it would even out crime rates quite a bit.
Actually, the scientists didn't make light go faster than c, they made its group velocity go faster than c. There's a big difference, the main one being that no information can be transmitted this way. One useful analogy is a line of people saying a word to each other. If each person says the word the precise moment they hear it from the person before them, then the information (the word) obviously travels at the speed of sound. On the other hand, if everyone has a watch, and is told to say the word at a precise time, you can make it appear that the "signal" travels much faster than the speed of sound. If you could do it precisely enough, you could even make it look like it is traveling faster than c! However, no information is actually transmitted this way: everyone already had the information.
Another good analogy is spinning a light source around, so that a focused beam sweeps out a circle. When the light source is millions of light years away, it will appear to the alien viewer there that the beam is travelling much faster than c. However, once again, no usable information travels this way, as any info encoded in the beam of light is travelling from the light source to the alien, and not from one alien to another.
Consider this, he's a politician, someone who is supposed to have a firmer grasp of the language and better communication skills than the typical person, especially geeks (never mind all of the classic political quotes).
Compared with his alternative in the 2000 election, I'd hardly consider this to be an issue.
That's actually what they're trying to do to Arrested Development right now. Never mind the fact that it won the Best Comedy Emmy in addition to four others in its first season, and will most likely pull off something similar in its second. Never mind the fact that Malcolm in the Middle and a Topher Grace-less, Ashton Kutcher-less That 70's Show have already been renewed, despite both being well past their prime and having worse ratings than Arrested Development. Never mind the fact that nearly every critic has referred to it as the hands-down best show on television. Fox would rather make room for a repeat episode of the Simpsons or for the terrible American Dad, even though the former does worse in the ratings and the latter's reviews were all terrible.
Granted, they haven't formally cancelled the show either, but it still hasn't been renewed, which at this point in the year is not a good sign. You have to realize that this is what Fox does to good shows. They did it to the Ben Stiller Show, they did it to Greg the Bunny, they did it to Firefly, they did it to Family Guy (although it lucked out), and they're about to do it to Arrested Development. They screw around with good shows until they've rationalized an excuse to cancel them in their own "twisted minds" (their words, not mine).
I hate to tell you, but Nintendo has never insisted that mature games not be on their console. They just got that reputation over 10 years ago when they made the creators of Mortal Kombat remove the blood. For example, the Resident Evil series has been pretty much exclusive to Gamecube this generation (including the excellent Resident Evil 4).
Many schools (especially private ones) get money donated to them explicitly earmarked for technology. That is, the donor alumni makes the school sign an agreement stating that the money will be spent on anything else. While this sounds all well and good, some schools end up having more technology money than they know what to do with. So, to an outside observer, it might seem that they are blowing money on frivolous technologies, but in actuality, they can't really spend it on more important things (such as textbooks).
When I was in high school, I worked at a local Target as a cashier. Though it was not required, I held all $50's and $100's up to a light, to make sure that they had the polyester strip. (The store didn't issue any special pens, so we had to do things manually.) Since I worked at an extremely busy store, I had already had a good feel for money, though.
In the two years that I worked there, I accused exactly one person of counterfeiting. To me, the counterfeiting of the two fifties was obvious. I called my manager over to the lane, and was like, "I'm 99.9% sure that these are fake." She told me to take them anyway. About fifteen minutes later, after the line had died down, I took the bills over to the TPS (the security guy who stands at the front door). Sure enough, they were fake, and I got to go on record making my manager look like an idiot.
Just because a politician visits a state twice in the span of four years, it does not mean that he cares about that state at all. Nor does it mean that he will take that state's denizens into consideration when he makes a decision. It means that he or she is simply trying to get the favor of the easily swayed. For some reason, it works.
I find it ironic that though Bush recently called Pope John Paul II a "champion of freedom" after his death, a sizable portion of the Pope's message consisted of speaking out against Bush's policies. It's just another manipulative tactic that Bush uses to capture non-Democrat Catholics' approval (the largest tactic being Bush's "opposition" of abortion).
If this idea were to ever get some serious funding, I'd imagine that the government would pay a company such as Monsanto to genetically alter an already fast-growing grass to grow even faster.
Essentially, though, what you have to remember is that the energy supply for the grass is still the sun. The question then becomes whether or not this is more energy efficient in the long run than solar panels are. If I had to guess, I'd say that it's though it's less efficient, it's much cheaper (in the long run), and more environmentally friendly. After all, would you rather see a field of solar panels or a field of grass?
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Is it just me, or does the winning sentence remind anyone else of Faulkner?
The best games from Gamecube are the rehashes of the classics mmmm.
Yes, because Metroid Prime was such a rehash of Super Metroid.
I'm getting the impression that for this generation of consoles, Nintendo's decided to sit out of the marketing hype war that Sony and Microsoft are enaged in. Then, whenever either of those two companies admits to overhyping their product, Nintendo swoops in and shows them up by announcing a previously-unknown feature (such as this).
Actually, Missouri is not a red republican state (though they did vote for Bush in this past election). I quote from this Slate article:
Missouri was born in compromise in 1820, and it's still that way today. It has the same percentage of African-Americans as the nation as a whole, the same percentage of union workers, the same rural/urban mix, and on down the line. And invariably, the one fact that every Missourian knows surfaced: With the exception of the time it foolishly cast its lot with Adlai Stevenson in 1956, in every presidential election since 1900 Missouri has proudly voted for the winner. The implication is that you might as well call off the balloting in the other 49 states as a cost-saving measure.
Even though most people immediately think of farms when they hear "Missouri," and therefore assume that it's a red state, they forget about the "coasts" that are St. Louis and Kansas City. Both cities are highly Democratic, and tend to balance out the rural areas of the state. By the way, Adlai Stevenson was the Democratic nominee in 1956, meaning that the one time in the past 100 years that Missourians voted "wrongly," they voted Democratic.
Well, E = mc^2 = (310 ug)c^2 = 27.9 terajoules. I imagine that that energy would cost a lot.
How many hundreds of thousands of murders do you have to commit before people think you're a bad guy these days?
Exactly. He was a bad guy and a dictator, but that's it. He was no threat to anyone beyond the borders of Iraq, and you know that. He had no ties to Al-Qaeda. He had no weapons of mass destruction. There's a reason that he just rolled over when we invaded: he was weak, and did not need to be invaded. There are worse dictators out there, some who were installed by the CIA.
As for Bush protecting us from terrorists for 4 years, that reminds me of a certain episode of the Simpsons. A bear goes on a rampage in Springfield, and after it is captured, Homer convinces the town to waste its money on a "Bear Patrol." He tells Lisa that because there have been no bears since it began, it must be working. An event such as 9/11 took years to plan, so even if there was another one in the works, we would have no way of knowing.
Oh yeah, and if you still believe that the administration truly believed that there were WMDs, you might want to read the contents of the Downing Street Memo, which was recently confirmed to be authentic by Blair. Don't be misled by the designation of "memo:" it's actually the official minutes of a meeting between senior British officials.
So, does Mac OS X require 1.21 gigawatts to run?
I don't know about anyone else, but I can't stand AdBlock. Removing elements (such as ads) tends to mess up the flow of many web pages, and makes those pages look terrible. If I really don't want to look at an image, I'll block the images normally.
Trust me, you won't be held liable for any slander that a Chinese blogger might say against a local official. Most countries aren't too keen on extraditing their citizens to China in order to face libel charges.
IMO, a huge part of the problem is literally the value of a dollar. While a programmer in the U.S. is making $65 per hour and his Indian counterpart is making $20 per hour, the Indian is much better off in comparison. From what I hear, that amount of money is enough to hire servants in India. Even though the amount of money is less, it goes much further there than it does here.
Actually, it didn't go "just fine" for the first 100-130 years. The country would experience cycles of prosperity interlaced with terrible panics, where the bottom of many markets would completely fall out. (They were magnitudes worse than our modern recessions.) The period of these boom and bust cycles was about 20 years, and they finally culminated in the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression. The New Deal played a large part in smoothing them out.
You might have a point, except that the Bush administration has repeatedly conspired to keep the truth from the American public, and to circumvent the Constitution when it suits them. Saddam Hussein doesn't have WMDs? Fine, we'll pick and choose intelligence to make it look like he does. While we're at it, we'll meet with Blair to discuss strategy for the war that Congress hasn't authorized. What, you tell me that Saddam Hussein hasn't done anything aggressive? Then we'll increase bombings to try and goad him into war.
It's probably best that you don't know where the meat came from.
I'm wondering what kind of effect a large scale version of this could have on crime rates. Since it would be easier to check them, less people would move to crime-ridden areas, and the ones who do would be on their guard much more, especially those who notice spikes in crime at certain times. At the same time, the more intelligent criminals would try to do their business in areas where people are less on-guard (i.e., low crime areas). Presumably, it would even out crime rates quite a bit.
Actually, the scientists didn't make light go faster than c, they made its group velocity go faster than c. There's a big difference, the main one being that no information can be transmitted this way. One useful analogy is a line of people saying a word to each other. If each person says the word the precise moment they hear it from the person before them, then the information (the word) obviously travels at the speed of sound. On the other hand, if everyone has a watch, and is told to say the word at a precise time, you can make it appear that the "signal" travels much faster than the speed of sound. If you could do it precisely enough, you could even make it look like it is traveling faster than c! However, no information is actually transmitted this way: everyone already had the information.
Another good analogy is spinning a light source around, so that a focused beam sweeps out a circle. When the light source is millions of light years away, it will appear to the alien viewer there that the beam is travelling much faster than c. However, once again, no usable information travels this way, as any info encoded in the beam of light is travelling from the light source to the alien, and not from one alien to another.
Consider this, he's a politician, someone who is supposed to have a firmer grasp of the language and better communication skills than the typical person, especially geeks (never mind all of the classic political quotes).
Compared with his alternative in the 2000 election, I'd hardly consider this to be an issue.
That's actually what they're trying to do to Arrested Development right now. Never mind the fact that it won the Best Comedy Emmy in addition to four others in its first season, and will most likely pull off something similar in its second. Never mind the fact that Malcolm in the Middle and a Topher Grace-less, Ashton Kutcher-less That 70's Show have already been renewed, despite both being well past their prime and having worse ratings than Arrested Development. Never mind the fact that nearly every critic has referred to it as the hands-down best show on television. Fox would rather make room for a repeat episode of the Simpsons or for the terrible American Dad, even though the former does worse in the ratings and the latter's reviews were all terrible.
Granted, they haven't formally cancelled the show either, but it still hasn't been renewed, which at this point in the year is not a good sign. You have to realize that this is what Fox does to good shows. They did it to the Ben Stiller Show, they did it to Greg the Bunny, they did it to Firefly, they did it to Family Guy (although it lucked out), and they're about to do it to Arrested Development. They screw around with good shows until they've rationalized an excuse to cancel them in their own "twisted minds" (their words, not mine).
I hate to tell you, but Nintendo has never insisted that mature games not be on their console. They just got that reputation over 10 years ago when they made the creators of Mortal Kombat remove the blood. For example, the Resident Evil series has been pretty much exclusive to Gamecube this generation (including the excellent Resident Evil 4).
Many schools (especially private ones) get money donated to them explicitly earmarked for technology. That is, the donor alumni makes the school sign an agreement stating that the money will be spent on anything else. While this sounds all well and good, some schools end up having more technology money than they know what to do with. So, to an outside observer, it might seem that they are blowing money on frivolous technologies, but in actuality, they can't really spend it on more important things (such as textbooks).
When I was in high school, I worked at a local Target as a cashier. Though it was not required, I held all $50's and $100's up to a light, to make sure that they had the polyester strip. (The store didn't issue any special pens, so we had to do things manually.) Since I worked at an extremely busy store, I had already had a good feel for money, though.
In the two years that I worked there, I accused exactly one person of counterfeiting. To me, the counterfeiting of the two fifties was obvious. I called my manager over to the lane, and was like, "I'm 99.9% sure that these are fake." She told me to take them anyway. About fifteen minutes later, after the line had died down, I took the bills over to the TPS (the security guy who stands at the front door). Sure enough, they were fake, and I got to go on record making my manager look like an idiot.
Just because a politician visits a state twice in the span of four years, it does not mean that he cares about that state at all. Nor does it mean that he will take that state's denizens into consideration when he makes a decision. It means that he or she is simply trying to get the favor of the easily swayed. For some reason, it works.
I don't know what you mean by city-wide, but St. Louis is an even bigger place, and has had free Wi-Fi encompassing downtown since 2003.
I find it ironic that though Bush recently called Pope John Paul II a "champion of freedom" after his death, a sizable portion of the Pope's message consisted of speaking out against Bush's policies. It's just another manipulative tactic that Bush uses to capture non-Democrat Catholics' approval (the largest tactic being Bush's "opposition" of abortion).
It's no Mr. Fusion, but a good idea nonetheless.
If this idea were to ever get some serious funding, I'd imagine that the government would pay a company such as Monsanto to genetically alter an already fast-growing grass to grow even faster.
Essentially, though, what you have to remember is that the energy supply for the grass is still the sun. The question then becomes whether or not this is more energy efficient in the long run than solar panels are. If I had to guess, I'd say that it's though it's less efficient, it's much cheaper (in the long run), and more environmentally friendly. After all, would you rather see a field of solar panels or a field of grass?